Bdelycles: how a tyranny is everything for you, and you are conspirators,
Bdelycleon: whether it is a greater or lesser matter that anyone accuses,
Bdelucleon: I have never heard that name, not even at the age of fifty;
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Bdeluclion: But now it is much more worthy of brine,
Bdelucléon: So now even her name is rolling around in the marketplace.
Bdelucléon: If someone buys a swallow, but does not want to buy a membrane,
Bdelycleon: the seller has just sold the membranes nearby.
Bdeluclēon: 'This fellow looks like he is buying votes in order to become a tyrant.'
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Bdelycleon: If it asks for a sweetmeat with its paws,
Bdelycleon: the vegetable-seller, having overlooked, says to the other:
Bdelycleon: Tell me, are you asking for a sorcery charm? Is it for a tyranny,
Bdelucleon: Or do you think that Athens brings you delicacies?
Xanthias: And the prostitute also yesterday, after I had entered in the middle of the day,
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Xanthias: because I commanded him to bray, she became angry with me.
Xanthias: It would be rowing if I were to set up Hippias' tyranny.
Bdelucleon: for it is pleasant for these men to hear this, even if now I...
Bdelycleon: that my father, freed from these things, does whatever I wish.
Bdelycleon: of upright, night-wandering, fig-eating, law-suiting, wretched ways
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Bdelycleon: I have a reason to live a noble life like Morychus.
Bdelycleon: To do these things as a conspirator and thinking tyrannical thoughts.
Philocleon: By Zeus, that's in order; for I would not even milk birds.
Philocleon: I would take in exchange for my life whatever it is that you are now depriving me of;
Philocleon: I take no pleasure in either eels or lampreys, but rather, more pleasantly...
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Philocleon: I would like to eat a tiny little fig, boiled in a pot.
Bdelucleon: By Zeus, for you are accustomed to delight in such affairs.
Bdelucleon: But if you will endure it in silence and learn what I say,
Bdelucleon: I think I shall teach you that you are making mistakes in all these things.
Philocleon: Am I making a mistake in judging?
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Bdelucleon: So, then, being laughed at
Bdelucléon: you do not understand that you are being led by men whom you alone do not worship.
Bdelycleon: But you have escaped notice while being a slave.
Philocleon: Stop talking about slavery,
Philocleon: whoever rules over all things.
Bdelycleon: Not you, but you are serving.
Bdelycleon: thinking that he rules; well then, teach us, father,
Bdelycleon: Such is the honor for you, enjoying Greece.
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Philocleon: Yes indeed, and with these I wish to entrust [the matter].
Bdelycleon: And indeed, I (am the one).
Bdelucléon: Let him go now, all of you.
Philocleon: And give me a sword too.
Philocleon: For if I am defeated while speaking, I shall fall by the sword.
Bdelycleon: tell me, what was the terrible thing, that you did not remain in your way of life?
Philocleon: May I never receive a reward for good fortune from unmixed wine.
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